What is a CNAME record?
“CNAME” records are “Canonical Name” records and create an alias for your domain. You could make an alias like “www” for yourdomain.dot and every reference to “www.yourdomain.dot” would go to “yourdomain.dot”, regardless how often your main ‘A’ records IP address changed. You can define Unlimited CNAME Aliases for your domain, but we recommend at least one CNAME alias of “www” as typically websites are addressed www.yourdomain.com. CNAME entries should point to an ‘A’ record which resolves to an IP address and not another CNAME, if a CNAME entry points to another CNAME entry there is a risk of an infinite loop being created.
“CNAME” records are “Canonical Name” records and create an alias from one domain to another. You could make an alias from “nominate.yourdomain.com” to “www.nominate.net”, and every reference to “nominate.yourdomain.com” would go to “www.nominate.net”, regardless how often nominate.net changed their IP addresses.
“CNAME” records, short for “Canonical Name”, create an alias from a domain name to another. You could create an alias from “yahoo.mydomain.com” to “www.yahoo.com”, and every reference to “yahoo.mydomain.com” would go to the other location, regardless how yahoo changed their IP addresses! Be careful, however; CNAMEs won’t work everywhere. If you create an MX record, and the name used for the mail server was defined using a CNAME, you might lose e-mail!
